Formative relevance of the urban planning curriculum: Analysis of competencies for the 21st century

This article evaluates planning curriculum relevance, in li-ght of the competencies that define the urban planner of the 21st century. Using the case study as a method, this piece of work analyzes the substantive core of the 2015 Study Plan for the Bachelor's Degree in Territorial Planning of the Fa-culty of Urban and Regional Planning of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico to contrast its purposes in the field of competences and the areas of professional performance. The analysis identifies the different areas in which urban planners will have to develop and the challen-ges this poses for curriculum design. Based on this analysis it proposes actions to support a new vision of the curricula and educational approaches that enable the development of competencies, skills, and knowledge so that future urban planners are equipped to theorize, analyze and manage an object of study that, like society, is evolving and transfor-ming at a dizzying pace.